By Denis Campbell
Ya think?
It was a tragic tabloid headline feeding frenzy. 12-year old Alfie Patten of Essex was by all photographic accounts an extremely pre-pubescent child. Yet he was paraded out before paparazzi by baby Maisie’s mother Chantelle Stedman, age 15, as the father back in February.
Most were as stunned as the deer-caught-in-the-headlights Alfie. Near [...]
Baby NOT Alfie’s, Twins Have Two Dads, Better Sex Education Needed?
Posted on 19 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 12 year old Dad, Alfie Patten, Chatelle Stedman, DNA test, FOX, Maisie, Sky+, twins from two dads
Dogged FOX Journalistic Truths
Posted on 16 April 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (0) | Tags: Bo, cable, First Dog, FOX, Gingrich, Glenn Beck, Journalism, Kennedy, Malia & Sasha, Media, obama, Portuguese Water Dog, Predictions, press, pundits, Richard Phillips, Somali Pirates, White House Dog
By Madeleine Begun Kane
(Two new, hysterically funny limericks from Mad Kane - Ed.)
Fox News “pundit” rants always look foolish, especially when they’re packed with gleeful predictions of Democratic failures. And most especially when their predictions turn out to be dramatically wrong.
Such, thankfully, was the case with the loony rantings indulged in by Newt Gingrich, Glenn [...]
Two Great Political Limericks from Sunday
Posted on 23 March 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (0) | Tags: Bias, Biceps, Bloggers, Brent Bozell, Brit Hume, FOX, Irony, Maureen Dowd, Media, Media Research Center, Michelle Obama, MRC, New York Times, news, Op Eds, Oval Office, Partisanship, Sinewy Arms
by Madeleine Begun Kane
Fuming About Hume
What delicious irony — Brit Hume bitching about blogger partisanship.And then thanking rightwingers Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center “for the tremendous amount of material that the Media Research Center provided me for so many years when I was anchoring Special Report. I don’t know what we would have done [...]
T-Minus 1-Day to Regime Change
Posted on 19 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bush countdown calendar, FOX, Inauguration, McCain, obama
By Denis Campbell
The Bush countdown calendar’s down to its last sheet. 385 pages gone. It’s been almost 2-years since that freezing day Obama announced his candidacy on the Illinois Statehouse steps. We are more than halfway through a positively giddy festival of a celebration weekend. Thousands are milling about the Washington DC Mall just wanting [...]
Monday, 20:59:52
Posted on 19 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 Dutch nationals, 120, 15 February 2003, 20:59:52, 21-million marched peacefully, 400-Americans, 665 countries around the world, Amsterdam’s DAM Square, bogged down in lip-sticked pigs, Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, civil war and internal destruction, CNN, co-opted by his national party’s leadership, conducted by a decorated war hero, Countdown, crying terrorist at every corner, Denis Campbell, desperately trying to seize a shred of military glory r, Dutch media village in Hilversum, election ‘officials’ poised to steal another election, fear smear and lies can win, flight suit carrier deck photo op, FOX, great national debate, Hans Blix UN report, hijacking of our global goodwill, Keith Olbermann, let the UN inspectors finish hunting for WMD’s, lies and misdirection like a cheap magic trick, Mission Accomplished, Monday, moral standing, MSNBC, not all Americans were like George W. Bush, rained bombs on Baghdad, shameful election campaign, silent candlelight vigil by the US Consulate, sits smothered by election silliness, That’s Countdown for this the 2000th Day since the decl, The Iraq Platform’s Faisel Nasser, the war barely merits an above the fold headline, two weeks before Election Day 2008, We deserve much better, we don’t listen to focus groups, ‘Shock and Awe’
by Denis Campbell
Keith Olbermann will utter the words: “That’s Countdown for this the 2,000th Day since the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq. I’m Keith Olbermann. Goodnight and good luck” thus closing Monday night’s MSNBC broadcast, two weeks before Election Day 2008.
If children have been born during this two year long Presidential campaign, imagine what [...]
Tough for Convention Telly Abroad
Posted on 26 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 4 in the booth, 4 minutes behind last night, Abroad, Access Hollywood, amazing online HD Player, bad hair days, BBC, Bill O’Reilly, BSkyB, C-Span, CNBC, CNN, Convention Telly, DNCC, four terrestrial Dutch (and three German) channels, FOX, Good Evening Wales, HD, hundreds of choices, John Stewart, Keith Olbermann, leg muscles atrophy, McCain, MSNBC, NASA like array, obama, poker 24/7, rip-off quiz call-in shows, Rupert Murdoch, rural Eastern Holland, satellite dish, Sky News, Sky+, streaming live convention feeds, sync up, taping on SKY+, telly makers, three shows run in the background, tired of them both, Tough, UK, US Congressional elections
Ten years abroad and I have to say it is getting better. I now have C-SPAN and MSNBC streaming live convention feeds on each computer, CNN is taping on SKY+ in case Mr. Sandman calls before 5 am local time. The DNCC have an amazing online HD Player for streaming video that is better than [...]
Jon Stewart Rips Television News
Posted on 26 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: 24-hour cable news beast, 24-hour cable news networks, an appendage of the Republican Party, barbecue, biting satirical interview segments, calling them the most balanced network on air, campaign craziness, CNN, colors your vision of them so clearly and so profoundly, Comedy Central, Crossfire appearance, defend their ‘cozy’ relationship with the candidates, false sense of urgency, follow veins that have been mined, FOX, FOX News, gerbil wheels, John McCain's Arizona ranch, John Stewart, Karl Rove, MSNBC, New York Times columnist David Brooks, off-the-record dinners with politicians, Oscars, Pew Research poll, razor sharp wit, regurgitate campaign spin, Rips Television News, slow-witted beast, The Daily Show, The HUffington Post, tongue-in-cheek, Tucker Carlson, University of Denver, you become part of that machinery, you get sucked into it
Yesterday at the University of Denver, Jon Stewart ripped the 24-hour cable news beast for the current campaign craziness. We’ve often chastised the media here for the 600 word newsfeed rip, place two opposing quotes, add an expert opinion and presto! News.
Jon has a history of trying to get news outlets to do their job [...]
Perception, Terrorism and Race
Posted on 02 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 9-11, attention problem, Berlin Paris, Blackberry slaves, blow jobs, blue dress stains, Brandenburg Gate, campaign trail, Charlie Black, Christian, Clinton Administration, Clinton Telco’s, CNN, code words, Dr. King, Eiffel Tower, EU, fear of black men and white women together, FISA bill, FOX, French looking, George W. Bush, God’s honest truth, helicopter parenting, impeachment, Independent, Iraq adventure, JFK, John Kerry, John McCain, Karl Rove, Main Street USA, MSNBC, new ground, obama, Operation Swift Boat, opportunistic Pol, perception, racism, Red Bull, Republicans, right’s obsession, smear machine, soft on terrorism, stress, terrorist attack “good for John McCain”, the heart of fear in America, too little sleep, triple war amputee Georgia Senator Max Cleland, Undecided, unseemly comments, USA, what you are is more important than what you say
In America’s heartland, anything that paints Barack Obama as (place your fear mongering adjective here) passes as “God’s honest truth” even when proven a lie. MSNBC reported yesterday, “Gerri Kish, (is) 66-year-old (and) born in Hawaii, read both of Obama’s autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she [...]
Thank You Keith Olbermann for Both Inciting Right and Left
Posted on 11 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 22-minute national newscast, ABC, annoying, Appointment telly, archive, balance, BBC iPlayer, BBC News, boring, brave new world, Brian Williams, Brighton, brutal, bulls**t meter, but did you like it?, CBS, CNN, combining cable and network, cynical, disagree without becoming personally disagreeable, double entendres, e-magazine, England, every 3-5 minutes, expert, feedreaders, few bugs, flogged to death products, forced to watch adverts, FOX, honest, Ian Shaw, impressed with his/her language skills, Inciting Right and Left, inside joke, internet, Keith Olbermann, limits of blogging, milquetoast, movie reviews, MSNBC, MSNBC.com, mute the player, NBC, news franchise, News when I want it, Nightly News, no opt-out, one-dimensional, open, playlist clips, podcasts, raw emotion, real dialogue, ripped and read, Tech savvy folk, Tiffany broadcaster, Tom Brokaw, tone of reaction, truth, UK, US, use technology to help in ways never thought possible, Web convergence, wider and faster pipelines
Talking ‘With’ Rather Than ‘At’ Each Other on the Campaign Trail
This e-magazine had its busiest day ever last week by mentioning one man’s name – MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. I happen to like the guy and his work even if he periodically goes off the emotional deep end. Keith is mostly honest, open and brutal and [...]
Happy Friday! Please Blend vs. Stir or Shake
Posted on 04 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Blend vs. Stir or Shake, CNN, cookouts, Council Tax, fireworks, FOX, Friday, Glamorgan Heritage Coast, Independence Day, Irish Sea, London, Monknash, over-stuffing, parades, Plough and Harrow pub, political speeches, Severn River, strange, tea bag, US ex-pats, US holidays abroad, vadimus post, White House
On my 10th US Independence Day abroad, I’ll walk across our meadow to where the UK’s Severn River meets the Irish Sea and toss in the contents of a tea bag to celebrate. US holidays abroad are a bit strange. It’s Friday here. No hours-long parades, political speeches, fireworks, over-stuffing myself at cookouts or other [...]

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